Marseillaise

(3 syl.). The grand song of the French Revolution. Claude
Joseph Rouget de Lisle, an artillery officer in garrison at Strasbourg,
composed both the words and the $$$ for Dietrich mayor of the town. On
July 30th, 1792, the Marseillaise volunteers, invited by Barbaroux at
the instance of Madame Roland, marched to Paris singing the favourite
song; and the Parisians, enchanted with it, called it the Hymne des
Marseillais. (Rouget born 1760, died 1835.)